This live audio event will be broadcast via LinkedIn Live – you can sign up to attend here.
We will introduce the topic and speak for about 20 minutes – and the remainder of the time will be open to attendees for Q&A.
About:
You feel lost and paralyzed about what to say or what to do. The tragedy is so big. What if you say the wrong thing? Should you just leave those parents alone? Whether you are a friend, neighbor, or family member who knows a bereaved parent, Leslie Weirich and AnneMoss Rogers, both mothers who have lost children will help you know what to do, what to say, and how to show up. Both women are suicide prevention and mental health speakers.
This is for friends, co-workers, family, and neighbors of bereaved parents and step-parents and for bereaved parents and stepparents.
Speakers:
AnneMoss Rogers is a mental health and suicide education expert, professional speaker, trainer, and consultant. After her 20-year-old son, Charles died by suicide in 2015, Anne Moss chronicled her family’s tragedy in a newspaper article that went viral, and her blog, Emotionally Naked, has reached millions.
She is the author of the award-winning memoir, Diary of a Broken Mind and the best seller, Emotionally Naked: A Teacher’s Guide to Preventing Suicide and Recognizing Students at Risk with co-writer Dr. Kimberly O’Brien. She has been a TEDx speaker, was featured in the New York Times, Variety Magazine, and was the first non-clinician invited to speak on youth suicide at the National Institute of Mental Health. A UNC-Chapel Hill alumna, Anne Moss currently lives in Richmond, VA. Her surviving son is a filmmaker in LA.
For Leslie Weirich, the dreadful knock came at 2.30 in the morning. Through the windows framing her family’s front door she could make out a police car. From the moment she opened that door, life would never be the same again. Leslie was told that her 20-year-old son Austin had taken his own life.
It was the response to a national news report in the US where she lives that made Leslie realise that her family’s story needed to be told. She says: “Austin’s story has the power to save other young lives, and spare other parents the devastating loss we experienced. Telling our story to save others is what gets me up and going every single day. It’s my passion, and it has become my life’s work.”
Despite a pain that has endured since that night in September 2016, Leslie now devotes much of her life tirelessly campaigning for suicide prevention by reaching out to audiences around the world.
